Good-bye To Corporal Punishment
An increasing proportion of boys and girls in New Zealand are passing, for a short time at least, into some form of secondary school. Some think the time too short. The schools themselves have changed considerably in recent years. Only the other day I was talking with a teacher who had come back to his old school after a retirement of about ten years. He said, "The most important thing I notice is the different attitude of the boys to their miasters. They aren’t frightened of them to-day. They don’t expect to be belted." That is one of the most hopeful things I have heard for a long time. It means, you see, that the modern teacher is trying to understand his pupils, to help them in the job of growing up. I look forward to the day when corporal punishment -vicious both to him who gives and him who receives, will be as far removed from schools as the thumb screw from our courts of law.
(A, B. Thompson, in a discussion with
G. W.
C. Drake
Vocational Guidance Officer, on
"School and Vocation," 1YA).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 5
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190Good-bye To Corporal Punishment New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 5
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